News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Chambersburg, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to one year plus one day in prison, three years’ supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,538,345 to numerous victims, on his conviction of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Oak Ridge’s EM program and contractor URS | CH2M (UCOR) completed characterization at the Y-12 National Security Complex ’s Biology Complex this month, identifying contaminants before demolition and waste disposition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Chambersburg, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to one year plus one day in prison, three years’ supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,538,345 to numerous victims, on his conviction of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling $231,600 from her employer, Shelter Insurance Federal Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ilie Zdragat, 30, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Rome, NY - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 94,006 visitors to Fort Stanwix National Monument in 2016 spent $5.2 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 68 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $6.4 million.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: ASHFORD, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that nearly than 1.4 million recreation visitors to Mount Rainier National Park during 2016 spent $50.7M in communities surrounding the park with a net impact to the economy of approximately $64.8M. This spending supported approximately 650...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today’s Natural Resources Committee markup features multiple environmental deregulation bills disguised as infrastructure planning - a continuation of a trend that became clear earlier this month. Committee Republicans spent the month of March holding ostensibly “infrastructure-related"...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Four Men Charged With the Illegal Trafficking of Threatened Alligator Snapping Turtles.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: We are writing to express our strong support for the Oversight Committee’s effort to obtain documents from the White House relating to former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, which you and Ranking Member Cummings requested in a letter to White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tony Derrick Torrez, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to drug trafficking and firearms charges. The plea agreement recommends that Torrez be sentenced to a term of imprisonment within the range of 93 to 101 months followed by a term of supervised release to be ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 25, 2017, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Delray Jamare Randall, a/k/a “Black," age 35, of Odenton, Maryland to eight years in prison followed by two years of supervised release for engaging in the business of dealing in firearms and conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Karry Max Taylor, III, age 21, of Columbia was sentenced in federal court for making a hoax bomb threat, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1038(a). Senior United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: A former member of the military pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to two counts related to sexual molestation of a young child on different military bases in Washington and Louisiana, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. KENNETH PAUL DESCOTEAUX, 41, was arrested in April 2016...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Alexander Acosta as Secretary of Labor...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: An Elyria man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for selling fentanyl that caused the fatal overdose of a Lorain County man, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Jasmine Jaquel Bradley, age 26, of Macon, Georgia, was arrested and charged with Interstate Bomb Threats, Threatening Interstate Communications and Conveying False Information and Perpetuating a Hoax against Child Care Network School, a daycare located at 3940 Northside Drive in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four previously deported aliens were indicted separately on April 26, 2017, by a federal grand jury on illegal re-entry charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Having worked in and near the airline industry for almost all my career, I’ve seen lots of good ideas to improve service, safety, and reliability, but none as compelling as reforming U.S. air traffic control (ATC) by converting it to an independent, nonprofit organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Lamarlvin Arkeena Watts, 22, from Savannah, was sentenced earlier this week by Senior U. S. District Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 148 months in federal prison for bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the commission of that crime. Watts’ convictions followed a two-day jury trial in January 2017.
